Kartemquin Artistic Director and Founder Gordon Quinn sat down with UCLA for an interview during which Quinn discussed the mission, values, past and future of Kartemquin. Find an excerpt below:

“In recording life as it unfolds you’re providing people with a common experience…There is a specificity, a density to the film image that challenges people to draw their own conclusions at the same time that it may be shifting their beliefs. However film does not, in and of itself, make social change. Film moving people to get organized and take action is what makes change.” - Gordon Quinn